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Dave Ross

This undated photo found on the VK page of Dias Kadyrbayev shows Kadyrbayev, left, with Boston Mara...
Dave Ross

If they had just dialed 911…

FBI Agent Rick DesLauriers knew within hours of the Boston bombings what would break the case.
13 years ago
All the witnesses say they have been victims of a campaign of ridicule and intimidation by the gove...
Dave Ross

What the Pentagon knows about UFOs

In an unofficial hearing at the National Press Club in Washington, several former members of Congress are hearing from UFO researchers who hope to pressure the REAL Congress to order the military to disclose what it knows about alien visits.
13 years ago
In a Friday, Sept. 28, 2012 file photo, Boston Celtics’ Jason Collins poses during Celtics NB...
Dave Ross

A Jackie Robinson moment?

NBA veteran Jason Collins has come out as gay - first active pro-athlete in a men's team sport to do it.
13 years ago
You will be required to buy health insurance starting in 2014, but in return, the insurance compani...
Dave Ross

In just a few short months, next phase of Obamacare kicks in

It's only five months away: on October 1st, the latest phase of Obamacare kicks in.
13 years ago
This file image from a Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Homeland Security shows th...
Dave Ross

Background checking an idea

As we try to pin down what motivated the Boston bombing, we are now witnessing an extensive a public background check of the Tsarnaev brothers.
13 years ago
Dave Ross

Fireball shot

AJ Clemente, on his first day as a TV anchor for the NBC station in Bismarck, was struggling to pronounce the name of the winner of the London Marathon, Tsegaye Kebede, and he wasn't getting it, and not realizing the red light was on, he let loose.
14 years ago
On Feb. 22, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood held a White House Briefing and warned of the fligh...
Dave Ross

Why didn’t you tell us?

On Wednesday, Congressman Harold Rogers of Kentucky, was fuming at the head of the FAA about the thousands of the delays at the nation's airports.
14 years ago
Investigators comb through the post finish line area of the Boston Marathon at Boylston Street, two...
Dave Ross

Entirely homemade

The latest from the Homeland Security committee seems to confirm what a lot of people still find hard to believe. The Tsarnaev brothers acted on their own, and used the kind of commonly available equipment and explosives that anyone could buy - and buy legally.
14 years ago
In the meantime, the Dow Jones had bungeed about 145 points. And analysts were wagging their finger...
Dave Ross

$200 billion gone in two minutes

On Tuesday, $200 billion temporarily vanished from the stock market because of a bogus tweet. It was back seven minutes later, which is reassuring. But how it happened at all is not reassuring.
14 years ago
King County Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Amy Friedheim says you assume a risk every time you drive t...
Dave Ross

Penalized for pulling over, but the law is the law

I thought that was an interesting question - what if you're driving along and you suddenly come to your senses and realize you're too drunk to drive - and you pull over to sleep it off. Should you get a ticket?
14 years ago
Gov. Jay Inslee signs a new bill into law Monday requiring all Washington state laws are gender neu...
Josh Kerns

Are gender-neutral laws really necessary?

Don't look for any sign of freshmen, dairymen, or even penmanship in any Washington state laws, after Gov. Jay Inslee signed off on the last phase of a six-year effort to make sure they're all gender neutral.
14 years ago
In this Feb. 17, 2010, photo, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, left, smiles after accepting the trophy for winnin...
Dave Ross

The red flags are waving

In hindsight, the biggest red flag waving above Tamerlan Tsarnaev was the request from Russian Security agents that the FBI question him about how radical he was.
14 years ago
Some senators appear to be ready to punish GOOD immigrants to get at the few BAD ones. (AP Photo/Th...
Dave Ross

Targeting immigrants?

Senator Charles Grassley says since the two Boston Marathon Bombers weren't born here - it might be prudent to take a closer look at the immigration bill now before his committee.
14 years ago
A health care train wreck? Dave Ross was a little worried so called up his congressman. (AP Photo/f...
Dave Ross

A health care train wreck?

It was a little disconcerting for people who are already worried the effects of health care reform. Senator Max Baucus - a democrat - who not only voted for health care but was a key player in designing it… was worrying aloud at a Senate hearing that the government is screwing it up:
14 years ago
This Monday, April 15, 2013 photo provided by Bob Leonard shows third from left, Tamerlan Tsarnaev,...
Dave Ross

Good cam /bad cam

There are two sides to living in a society that never blinks - where thousands of cameras, public and private, capture everything.
14 years ago
Mark Barden, left, who lost his son Daniel in Newtown, speaks to introduce President Barack Obama d...
Dave Ross

Big Brother loses to Big Gun

The big comprise between Senators Manchin and Toomey on extending gun buyer background checks is dead.
14 years ago
As the FBI noted in a report three years ago, these bombs are easy to hide because they look like p...
Dave Ross

Pressure cookers. Who knew?

This is how out of the loop most of us are.
14 years ago
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Dave Ross

A hero in Boston: The man in the cowboy hat

A striking and graphic picture emerged from Boston of a man in a cowboy hat wheeling a badly injured man for treatment. His name is Carlos Arredondo.
14 years ago
Medical workers aid injured people at the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon following an expl...
Dave Ross

Do you get angry?

I admit I do. That sound we've heard again and again - the sound of two bombs exploding in the middle of a city. Tearing into people who had just come to see a race. You want to punish whoever did it.
14 years ago
Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., right, and Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., finish a news conference on Capitol H...
Dave Ross

Traitor!

The U.S. Senate will have an all- out gun debate. It's a debate the gun rights lobby did not want, and one group plans to punish the senators who LET it happen - especially Pennsylvania's Pat Toomey, who was on CBS's Face The Nation trying to be reassuring.
14 years ago
In Richland Washington, a florist named Baronelle Stutzman, who for years has done wedding arrangem...
Dave Ross

Where have all the flowers gone?

As Americans, we believe in a free market: except when we don't.
14 years ago

Jackie Robinson film ’42’ out this weekend; meet Northwest folks who played a part in his story

The film "42," starring Harrison Ford and Chadwick Boseman comes out this weekend. It's the story of Jackie Robinson and his history-making year as the first black player to ever play major league baseball. And it turns out a couple notable Northwest names played a part in his story.
14 years ago
In this Saturday April 14, 2012 file photo, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, left, waves as North K...
Dave Ross

What if they’re not bluffing?

I think it's fair to say most of us have been underwhelmed by North Korea's bluster - despite the Hitlerian delivery of their lead anchorwoman.
14 years ago
It’s clear that any church can refuse to marry even a straight couple who they feel aren&#821...
Dave Ross

More to think about in case of florist being sued for refusing service to gay wedding

I'm fascinated with this story out of the Tri-Cities in which a florist refused to sell flowers to a gay couple getting married. The latest now is that the couple, like the Attorney General, are suing the florist and are being represented by the ACLU. This leads to a lot of really interesting questions.
14 years ago

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